The Estonian Ornithological Society has chosen the common swift as its bird of the year for 2026. The common swift is a bird that spends a significant part of its life in flight: it catches insects, ...

MONROE — Our favorite bird is back in town. Thousands of migrating Vaux’s swifts are visiting the old chimney of the Wagner Performing Arts Center this month. At dusk, the small birds swirl into the ...

Sometimes on summer evenings, Marion Miller likes to sit in her lawn chair and enjoy the air show happening overhead. With soft and rapid twittering, small smudge-gray birds known as chimney swifts ...

This story originally published online in The 9th Street Journal. It’s Tuesday evening at the Velvet Hippo’s rooftop bar. From the wooded deck, a few dozen hipster bargoers admire a picture-perfect ...